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Events on Friday 16 November 1798 2
1798Kentucky and Virginia ResolutionsStates declare the Alien and Sedition Acts unconstitutionalThe legislatures of Kentucky and Virginia passed resolutions, secretly written by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, declaring the Alien and Sedition Acts unconstitutional. They argued that states could judge whether federal laws went beyond the Constitution.
1798Kentucky and Virginia ResolutionsStates declare the Alien and Sedition Acts unconstitutionalThe legislatures of Kentucky and Virginia passed resolutions, secretly written by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, declaring the Alien and Sedition Acts unconstitutional. They argued that states could judge whether federal laws went beyond the Constitution.